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1900 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 3 | Wed | Returned from Milwaukee, got a ride home from Plymouth at 3 p.m. with younger Conger as far as Sellars Creek. |
| Jan. 6 | Sat | Medicine dance at Parnell tonight. |
| Jan. 7 | Sun | This is the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. And Mrs. John Slattery, Mona and myself were invited. We attended the celebration in the evening. We staid till 12 o'clock at night. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. Brogan, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Murphy, Tom Gibbons and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dwyer, Mr. And Mrs. Heraty, Mrs. Connell and Dan, and all of their children and families attended. The meeting was a surprise on the old folks. |
| Jan. 8 | Mon | Alice drove Maud to Dundee to attend Dan Daily's funeral, overtook it south of O'Brien's corner in Osceola. Age 40, survived by his wife and boy age 7. |
| Jan. 10 | Wed | Heard of Mrs. Brooks death, funeral to be at St. Mary's at Cascade. |
| Jan. 15 | Mon | Pat Quinn called about lease from Mrs. Murphy and so did Ed Murphy. |
| Jan. 16 | Tue | Mrs. "Bill" Murphy nee Clifford was buried today. |
| Jan. 17 | Wed | Old John Cannon died at 9:00 p.m. found in bed by Rooney youngster. |
| Jan. 19 | Fri | John Cannon buried today at Mitchell. |
| Jan. 20 | Sat | Anthony Reddington today at Kewaskum was thrown from the seat on his sleigh with such force as to be knocked unconcisus (sic) in which he remained for ½ hour caused by the drag in the sleigh runner. |
| Jan. 21 | Sun | Walked up to Slattery's in the evening to get the Cannon biography. Stopped at Reddington's. First time since Maggie and Tony began housekeeping. |
| Jan. 24 | Wed | Heard of Mike Walsh's death on Saturday last week. |
| Jan. 27 | Sat | The 15th Wedding Anniversary of Pat and Mrs. McNicholas celebrated at Plymouth. |
| Jan. 28 | Sun | Mary Devine arrived from Chicago this p.m. The Gazin woman helped the Devine's. |
| Feb. 2 | Fri | Received a letter from John Lynch that his ______ was dieing, dated 2nd. |
| Feb. 4 | Sun | Funeral of Hugh Lynch today. Mary and Kate Devine at their mothers today. |
| Feb. 10 | Sat | Wrote Billy Connors today at DePere. The John Gibbons farm sold by auction today by Ed O'Connell to John Bowen for $1625.00. |
| Feb. 20 | Tue | Heard of the death of James Stanton at Chicago. |
| Feb. 22 | Thur | The Gariety-Naughton wedding took place today. Also Flunker and Glass. |
| March 2 | Fri | Johnny Naughton called today and both boys on the McCullough-Sackett suit at Campbellsport. |
| March 3 | Sat | Walked to Dan Murphy's and made out lease between Mrs. Kate Murphy and Pat Quinn for 2 years, $250.00 per year. |
| March 6 | Tue | An heir born to the Bart Donahue estate. |
| March 8 | Thur | A cinch party at Manley's Hall this evening. |
| March 19 | Mon | The Brookmire girl buried at Dundee today. |
| March 28 | Wed | Mrs. Dan Cavanaugh died today after a long and painful illness. |
| March 31 | Sat | Cheese meeting. _________ to make "twins" at 1 ¼ cents per lb. And Daisy at 1 3/8 cents per lb. Quite a big gathering at the meeting. |
| April 3 | Tue | Attended town meeting. Board - Crosby, Henry & Gatzke, Clerk-Butler, Assessor-Burke, Treasurer-Dwyer. Made out P.O. bond. Had Tony (?) & Slattery as securities. |
| April 5 | Thur | Tom Rooney had a brush bee today. The Russian peddlar stopped over night. Old man Brogan called today. |
| April 7 | Sat | Heard of the death of Jesse Bowen at 10 a.m. today. |
| April 11 | Wed | Mrs. Jerry Clifford died at 9 o'clock this evening. Lord have mercy on her soul. |
| April 14 | Sat | John Early died at Cascade at 9 ½ a.m. |
| April 16 | Mon | Michael Early of Cascade, formerly of Mitchell, died. Services at Cascade, buried Mitchell. Only 6 teams. |
| April 22 | Sun | Old McCarty who used to live one time at Osceola church, was buried today at Osceola. He died in Chicago. Dr. John N. O'Brien died at Milwaukee this morning. I knew him as a young man near Cascade. His parents were Catholics. He was a Catholic Apostate at the time of his marriage to Ann Smith. He had to become Episcopal before his wife would marry him. He then became a Mason & a member of other societies. He was a vain and foolish man, a proud fellow. |
| April 24 | Tue | Drove down to Keyes in Lyndon with Bill Scanlon to sign deed given to Mrs. Murphy of Iron Mt. property owned by Scanlon & wife. Wm. Scanlon bid his wife goodbye for all time, by saying his only desire was to see Ira? if he ever came back to this country. There was no feeling shown on the part of either. Both seemed relieved and glad of the parting. She said she could support herself and child but could not support a 250 lb. man that did not try to support himself. |
| April 26 | Thur | Miss Dooley was buried at Cascade today, died suddenly. |
| April 28 | Sat | Hard of Matt Gaynor going to work Matt's farm. |
| April 29 | Sun | Digging telephone poles from Parnell to Pius, i.e. the company. |
| May 1 | Tue | A greenhorn from Ireland direct came to Reddington named ______. |
| May 5 | Sat | Tony, Mag & Kit Gill called this evening for awhile. |
| May 7 | Mon | Drove as far as Falls, took electric to Sheboygan. Pleased with the ride. |
| May 8 | Tue | Walter Seekins buried at Sheboygan today. |
| May 9 | Wed | Old "Rubber" Reilly found dead in his bed this morning. Supposedly from heart disease. Buried at St. Patrick's on May 11th. |
| May 11 | Fri | Barn dance at McBride's tonight. |
| May 12 | Sat | Henry Chambers died today at his home in Mitchell. Buried at Mt. Pleasant. Heard of Bill McGrath getting hurt by his team running away. Can't live. |
| May 21 | Mon | Tom Mangan had a stone bee. |
| May 24 | Thur | Ascension Thursday. Today is the 35th Anniversary of our marriage on Ascension Thursday, May 24, 1865 at St. Patrick's old log church in the town of Sherman by Reverend Father Krief. Kate Gallagher and Tim Scanlan stood up for us. |
| May 26 | Sat | Democratic caucus held in the town house. Delegates elected: John F. Murray, Tim Rooney, Tom Heraty & John Dowling. The candidates trusted the count. |
| May 27 | Sat | Reverend Burke spoke about church repairs of fence & churchyard lot. |
| May 29 | Tue | Old man Brogan called early this morning. I wrote letter to Ellen at Green Bay for him. |
| June 1 | Fri | Dance at Dowling's tonight in honor of Miss McLaughlin. |
| June 3 | Sun | Called to be married at Osceola; Miss Beaucage to Joe Shea; and Miss Ella Shea to ________ Richardson of Forest. |
| June 8 | Fri | John Manley around on census business this morning. |
| June 14 | Thur | Jim Connors barn raising. |
| June 19 | Tue | The Shea-Beaucage wedding at Osceola today. |
| June 20 | Wed | The Shea-Richardson wedding at Osceola today. |
| June 21 | Thur | Robt. Skelton had stone bee. |
| June 24 | Sun | Ben Butler's baby girl was buried at Mitchell. |
| June 27 | Wed | Mathy had a barn raising in the p.m. Henry Jordans Walsh called today with bills for Pete Murphy & Geo. McGrane. |
| June 28 | Thur | Heiress born to Ed Burke estate. |
| July 2 | Mon | Mrs. Pat Cosgrove died at 5:30 p.m. |
| July 3 | Tue | This was an eventful day on account of the telephone being placed in our house. At 9 ½ a.m., Johnson, the phone expert came here with Larson and they put in the phone instrument. The first message was sent to Parnell and answered by John Dowling and the next to Waldo to Tom Alcox and answered by him. Phone was humming all the p.m. from all over the phone connection. Self and Mona attended Mrs. Cosgrove's wake this evening. |
| July 4 | Wed | John and Dan went to picnic in Dundee. There were big crowds everywhere, Sand Lake, Dundee. |
| July 11 | Wed | Mrs. Roger Morgan was buried at Osceola today. |
| July 12 | Thur | Wm. Dwyre fell from the door in the west side of his barn 22 ft. breaking both legs, the right in 3 places, the left just at the ankle. |
| July 17 | Tue | Drs. Hughes & Dollard passed up this way to see Wm. Dwyre. |
| July 21 | Sat | Mary Connell went to Sheboygan this morning to visit her daughter, Hannah Gaynor, via rail from Plymouth. |
| July 22 | Sun | Met Nick Michails this evening, he came to repair Slattery's binder. |
| July 29 | Sun | A baby boy born to Johnny Mangan family. |
| July 30 | Mon | A baby born to Tom Kearnan family. |
| July 31 | Wed | Father Burke called this morning. He was on his rounds to sick folks. |
| Aug. 1 | Wed | A sharper at Parnell trying to pass counterfeit money. |
| Aug. 8 | Wed | Miss Ida Heidel came carrying the mail. |
| Aug. 17 | Fri | Dance at Manly's, Parnell. |
| Aug. 21 | Tue | Attended Democratic Convention at Milwaukee. |
| Sept. 10 | Mon | Mrs. Slattery called to make us a visit. Stayed till after supper. |
| Sept. 16 | Sun | Old Michail Scannel of Osceola died. To be buried tomorrow. |
| Sept. 17 | Mon | First frost last night. |
| Sept. 18 | Tue | Heard today of the death of old Mrs. Cullen, a town charge, at the John Henry place. |
| Sept. 30 | Sun | Priest took up a collection for Galveston sufferers today. |
| Oct. 14 | Sun | Ed Bowser and Miss Eleanor Hughes called to be married. |
| Oct. 16 | Mon | Drove down to Mrs. Smith's to learn about the age of her son, Con, who died the 25th at Jefferson. Born in Mitchell on April 14, 1871. |
| Oct. 22 | Mon | Speech tonight at Parnell by Tom Rooney. |
| Oct. 30 | Tue | The Bowser-Hughes wedding at Mitchell. They went to live at Colby. |
| Nov. 4 | Sun | Heard about John Dowling's mother being dead. Will be buried at Farmington tomorrow. |
| Nov. 6 | Tue | The phone was connected with Plymouth today for the first time. |
| Nov. 7 | Wed | John O'Connell of Scott died at noon today. Mitchell polled a big vote, 305. Democrats had only 26 majority. |
| Nov. 16 | Fri | Dance at Dowling's. Walked to Slattery's and cut their calves. |
| Nov. 28 | Fri | Farewell party at Dowling's tonight. |
| Nov. 30 | Fri | John Murray came along at 10 a.m. and went with him to Dundee and made out mortgage release from Mrs. McGinty to Adon Brown and wife for $1,000.00. Murray came home with me as far as Kilcoin's corner and I walked home. |
| Dec. 2 | Sun | A minstrel show in Parnell tonight. |
| Dec. 12 | Wed | Brogan's had a brush bee on the Gibbons place. |
| Dec. 15 | Sat | Death of old Dan Sullivan at Fond du Lac. |
| Dec. 19 | Wed | Heard of Brogan's cattle dying of black leg. Lost two already. |
| Dec. 22 | Sat | Telephone no good today. |
| Dec. 25 | Tue | Reverend Burke got a big collection. Big crowd at Mitchell. The students at home today: Brogan, Crosby, 2 Cooney's, George Dowling, Martin Hughes and many others (Or "and his mother") |
| Dec. 27 | Thur | Dan and Alice went to Dolan's dance. |
| Dec. 28 | Fri | Michail Burke of the town of Forest, buried in Osceola. He died out west in Kansas. |
| Dec. 31 | Mon | I went to Milwaukee from Plymouth today. Went to Scanlan's at 1207 - 6th St. |
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